In 2009, Diane Janowski and Allen C. Smith traveled to Niemodlin, Poland to find the home of Janowski's mother. Her mother was born and lived in Niemodlin (formerly Falkenberg, Germany) and left... More > during the Russian invasion in January 1945. Janowski was the first of her family to go back in 65 years. The family home still exists on Mickiewicza Street.< Less

Janowski Gardens is proud to present this cookbook filled with healthy farm-fresh recipes from our farm in Elmira, New York. Every recipe includes at least one ingredient that is grown in our garden.... More > Our vegetables, fruits, and herbs can help you eat sensibly and stay healthy - and they taste GREAT, too. Enjoy our innovative, yet simple and easy to prepare recipes.The Janowski Family has been living and working in Chemung County, New York since coming to America from East Germany (Prussia) in 1873. This cookbook honors their emigration, assimilation into the United States, hardiness, and their produce. The family-operated business celebrates their 134th growing season with this historic cookbook. Paperback 112 pages.< Less

Janowski Gardens is proud to present this cookbook filled with healthy farm-fresh recipes from our farm in Elmira, New York. Every recipe includes at least one ingredient that is grown in our garden.... More > Our vegetables, fruits, and herbs can help you eat sensibly and stay healthy - and they taste GREAT, too. Enjoy our innovative, yet simple and easy to prepare recipes. The Janowski Family has been living and working in Chemung County, New York since coming to America from East Germany (Prussia) in 1873. This cookbook honors their emigration, assimilation into the United States, hardiness, and their produce. The family-operated business celebrates their 135th growing season with this historic cookbook.< Less

Michel Fortlouis, a young Confederate soldier, weary of war, was captured by Union troops at Clinton, Louisiana, thirty miles from his home of New Roads. It was August 1864, in the last year of the... More > War Between the States. Corporal Fortlouis was shipped north to the Union Prison Camp at Elmira, New York, where he died of pneumonia within ten days of his arrival.
More than 12,000 young Southern men passed through the camp. Nearly 3,000 died. In their Honor – Soldiers of the Confederacy – The Elmira Prison Camp respectfully remembers these men and boys, and tells their stories. Research by the author has brought awareness of the soldiers’ relationships - brothers, fathers and sons, cousins and friends. Descendants of the soldiers have contributed harrowing stories of survival or despair. They were captured together. Some made it home.
In their Honor includes narratives from prisoners’ families, and a complete revised list of the Confederate dead at Woodlawn National Cemetery.< Less

Victorian weddings evoke thoughts of romance, elegance, and gentility. It is no wonder that many couples today consider a Victorian theme for their own weddings. If you're planning a Victorian themed... More > wedding and need charming authentic Victorian wedding songs for your musicians to play. Our collection includes 28 Victorian wedding marches, processionals, polkas, waltzes, Mothers' Songs, Dances, and songs for Wedding Anniversaries and Receptions written between 1872 and 1885. Songs include "Yankee Wedding March," "Dulciana Wedding March," "My Wife and I Waltz," "Wedding Reception Galop," "Silver Wedding Waltz," and "The Wedding Polonaise," and many more. Third in a series of historic American hometown sheet music books. 163 pages.< Less

This sheet music book is perfect if you enjoy a Victorian themed holiday season brimming with elegance and gentility. Wonderful old holiday songs include "Christmas Bells," "Merry... More > Christmas Polka," "Dear Old Christmas Story," "Santa Claus Galop," and many more written between 1853 and 1885. Sixth in a series of historic American sheet music books. 80 pages.< Less

With the 21st century tools of digital wizardry, NYHR Press has created a facsimile of the original program book from the exciting Great Inter-State Fair. Containing pictorial views and detailed... More > descriptions of Elmira, as it stood in 1890.
This book serves as a contemporary anthropological document of life at the end of the 19th century in Chemung County, New York. Views include downtown Elmira and its churches, Eldridge Park, Brand Park, and Grove Park, the Arnot Ogden Hospital, the Elmira Water Cure, the Palace Bath Rooms, residences and businesses - interior and exterior views... and the full listing of fair entries categories - horses, cattle, swine, poultry, sheep, domestics, machinery, etc.Paperback book 116 pages.< Less

Victorian Pride - Forgotten Songs about Elmira, New York 1854-1910. Fifth in the series of historic American sheet music books by New York History Review. The songs in this book are specific to the... More > city of Elmira, New York and include "Elmira Schottisch" by A. J. Abbey, "Little Barefoot Waltzes" by W. O. Wilkenson, "Dove Schottish" by J. Eliason, "Margery" by Lucia B. Hazen, "St. Omer's Commandery March" by Frank A. Remick, "The Growler" by Charles X. O'Brien, "If You Were a Big Red Rose" by Charles X. O'Brien, "The Old Farmer's Grave" by A. J. Abbey, and "May I Love You" by William Cramer.< Less

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